-0, the serendipity of a refugee people marooned in a land where earlier refugees are building a city, both in exile, may echo the age of the Bronze Age Collapse and the wanderings if the Sea Peoples as much as it might indicate a folk memory of a deluge, such as those found in Gilgamesh, Noah and Plato.

-1. Scandalously, a Dutch merchant once offered to purchase land from an Indian tribe in New York which would equal the precinct contained by a bull’s hide and then sliced the hide into string and bought for his enterprise some acreage. Virgil was crafting his epic to justify Roman rule. With Carthage having been annihilated by Rome it was important to show its founding as having been unjust on two counts: purchased by a woman rather than conquered by a man and that purchase conducted duplicitously after the merchant fashion.